Progress on MEVVA source VARIS at GSI.

For the last few years, the development of the VARIS (vacuum arc ion source) was concentrated on several aspects. One of them was the production of high current ion beams of heavy metals such as Au, Pb, and Bi. The requested ion charge state for these ion species is 4+.

Investigation of ion beam space charge compensation with a 4-grid analyzer.

Experiments to investigate the space charge compensation of pulsed high-current heavy ion beams are performed at the GSI ion source text benches with a 4-grid analyzer provided by CEA/Saclay. The technical design of the 4-grid analyzer is revised to verify its functionality for measurements at pulsed high-current heavy ion beams. The experimental investigation of space charge compensation processes is needed to increase the performance and quality of current and future accelerator facilities.

Production of high current proton beams using complex H-rich molecules at GSI.

In this contribution, the concept of production of intense proton beams using molecular heavy ion beams from an ion source is described, as well as the indisputable advantages of this technique for operation of the GSI linear accelerator. The results of experimental investigations, including mass-spectra analysis and beam emittance measurements, with different ion beams (CH3(+),C2H4(+),C3H7(+)) using various gaseous and liquid substances (methane, ethane, propane, isobutane, and iodoethane) at the ion source are summarized. Further steps to improve the ion source and injector performance with molecular beams are depicted.

Beam brilliance investigation of high current ion beams at GSI heavy ion accelerator facility.

In this work the emittance measurements of high current Ta-beam provided by VARIS (Vacuum Arc Ion Source) ion source are presented. Beam brilliance as a function of beam aperture at various extraction conditions is investigated. Influence of electrostatic ion beam compression in post acceleration gap on the beam quality is discussed.

Development of high current Bi and Au beams for the synchrotron operation at the GSI accelerator facility.

In this work, the latest results of developing high current ion beams of Au and Bi at GSI facility are described. The difficulties in the production of required charge state in vacuum arc discharge ion sources using the pure materials in the cathodes are discussed. As a possible solution, admix of a small amount of more refractory metal to the cathode material is considered.

[Complex rehabilitation of patients suffering of degenerative dystrophic joint disease with the application of minimally invasive keyhole surgery].

During the period of 2004-2009 in the 6th Central Military Clinical Hospital 343 arthroscopy were performed. Control set consisted of 128 patients who refused operative treatment or operative treatment couldn't be preformed because of contraindications. During the arthroscopy in 74% of cases old laceration of meniscus was diagnosed, in 18% infra-articular osteochondral fragments were eliminated, in 32% of cases arthroscopic synovectomy was preformed, in 10% of cases forage and mikrofrakturing of subchondral bone were performed, chondroplasty and sanitation of joint were done for every patient.

Measurements of transverse ion beam emittance generated by high current ion sources at the GSI test injector facility HOSTI.

The first emittance measurements with a new test injector facility (HOSTI) at GSI, designed for optimization of high current beam injection scheme, are discussed. The emittance of the ion beam (88 kV, Ar(1+) ions) was investigated as a function of various parameters related to the ion source, extraction, and postacceleration systems and the optimum parameters for future low energy beam transport line are concluded. The preliminary results of the emittance measurements with superconducting solenoid are presented.

[Methodological base of rehabilitation treatment of service men with consequences of limb injuries after mine wounds].

The article is devoted to solving questions of complex medical rehabilitation of military service men, became invalids owing to military trauma, participants of the armed local conflicts and controterror operations. Was formed a unitary organizational system of rehabilitation treatment and social adaptation of injured persons by optimization of prosthetic-orthopedic aid, as out-of-alternative method of rehabilitation of patients with amputating defects of limbs, caused by mine wounds. Were determined methods of explorations of patients, medical conditions to surgical and conservative preparation of stumps, criterions of preparedness of stumps and terms of beginnings of prosthesis, was introduced an algorithm of rehabilitation measures.

Excimer laser pumped by an intense, high-energy heavy-ion beam.

High-energy heavy ions are an ideal tool to generate homogeneously excited, extended volumes of nonthermal plasmas. Here, the high-energy loss (dE/dx) and absolute power deposition of heavy ions interacting with matter has been used to pump an ultraviolet laser. A pulsed 70 MeV/u 238U beam with up to 2.